Daily Devotional with Oswald ChambersBased on the Book: 'My Utmost For His Highest' (The
Golden Book of Oswald Chambers,1935) by Oswald Chambers

The Secret of the Lord

"The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him . . ." - Psalm 25:14

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it
is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret
sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret
joys with you. Have we ever let God tell us any of His joys? Or are we
continually telling God our secrets, leaving Him no time to talk to us? At the
beginning of our Christian life we are full of requests to God. But then we find
that God wants to get us into an intimate relationship with Himself— to get us
in touch with His purposes. Are we so intimately united to Jesus Christ’s idea
of prayer— “Your will be done” ( Matthew 6:10 )— that we catch the secrets of
God? What makes God so dear to us is not so much His big blessings to us, but
the tiny things, because they show His amazing intimacy with us— He knows every
detail of each of our individual lives.

“Him shall He teach in the way He chooses” ( Psalm 25:12 ). At first, we want
the awareness of being guided by God. But then as we grow spiritually, we live
so fully aware of God that we do not even need to ask what His will is, because
the thought of choosing another way will never occur to us. If we are saved and
sanctified, God guides us by our everyday choices. And if we are about to choose
what He does not want, He will give us a sense of doubt or restraint, which we
must heed. Whenever there is doubt, stop at once. Never try to reason it out,
saying, “I wonder why I shouldn’t do this?” God instructs us in what we choose;
that is, He actually guides our common sense. And when we yield to His teachings
and guidance, we no longer hinder His Spirit by continually asking, “Now, Lord,
what is Your will?”